Traveled for some IT work at Pearl Harbor. I was young and wore a shirt and tie to compensate. CPO pulls me aside Monday: "You don't have to dress so formal, we're pretty chill here."

Showed up in a shirt and tie again on Tuesday and she said directly: "Cut it out, you're stressing out my staff."

Fr. McSherry once said "Paxton, I'm whelmed." Brutal.

Thanks!

"[T]here are in fact some very smart critiques of institutional diversity programs...."

Any examples?

Waiting for ol' whatshisname to come through and tell you how your "smug self-righteousness is a bad look" again. 🤡

It's intentional. The answer is in your question. I'm not even being snarky. There's nothing to hold them to account.

Saw it at the grocery store last week.

I don't know... if I choose Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter, I think I have the brainpower to invent... Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter. That's just science right there.

I would like to secure New Jersey's borders against these people.

Oh yeah, not even close to enough. I'd imagine PATH and the NY Waterway ferries are going to be nuts as well.

Luckily (?) it doesn't affect the buses, though I need to look up whether the engineers consider that crossing the picket line.

The cold adolescent Nietzschean vision of superheroes, power as pornography, could not die fast enough, and be buried deep enough.